The editor-in-chief is Muriel Médard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

[1] According to Jack van Lint, it is the leading research journal in the whole field of coding theory.

[2] A 2006 study using the PageRank network analysis algorithm found that, among hundreds of computer science-related journals, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory had the highest ranking and was thus deemed the most prestigious.

ACM Computing Surveys, with the highest impact factor, was deemed the most popular.

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